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goat, which had one very large horn between its eyes, headed toward the
two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the river, rushing at him in
a rage. The goat charged furiously at the ram and struck him, breaking off
both his horns. Now the ram was helpless, and the goat knocked him down
and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from the goat’s power.
The goat became very powerful. But at the height of his power, his large
horn was broken off. In the large horn’s place grew four prominent horns
pointing in the four directions of the earth. Then from one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended
toward the south and the east and toward the glorious land of Israel. Its
power reached to the heavens, where it attacked the heavenly army, throwing some of the heavenly beings and some of the stars to the ground and
trampling them. It even challenged the Commander of heaven’s army by
canceling the daily sacrifices offered to him and by destroying his Temple.
The army of heaven was restrained from responding to this rebellion. So
the daily sacrifice was halted, and truth was overthrown. The horn succeeded in everything it did.
Then I heard two holy ones talking to each other. One of them asked,
“How long will the events of this vision last? How long will the rebellion
that causes desecration stop the daily sacrifices? How long will the Temple
and heaven’s army be trampled on?”
The other replied, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the
Temple will be made right again.”
As I, Daniel, was trying to understand the meaning of this vision, someone who looked like a man stood in front of me. And I heard a human
voice calling out from the Ulai River, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning
of his vision.”
As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. “Son of man,” he said, “you
must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the
time of the end.”
While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the
ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.
Then he said, “I am here to tell you what will happen later in the time
of wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very end of time. The t wo-
horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia. The shaggy male
goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes
represents the first king of the Greek Empire. The four prominent horns
that replaced the one large horn show that the Greek Empire will break
into four kingdoms, but none as great as the first.
“At the end of their rule, when their sin is at its height, a fierce king, a
master of intrigue, will rise to power. He will become very strong, but
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